Greedo confronts Han Solo
When Han Solo wants to leave the cantina, he is stopped by Greedo, a bounty hunter.
Greedo works for Jabba the Hutt, a local crime king, for whom Han Solo also works occasionally.
Han Solo has smuggled for Jabba and - when boarded by an Imperial patrol - abandoned the cargo. Jabba was not amused.
And Greedo is not interested in Han Solo’s explanations.
Blaster-shots are exchanged. Greedo misses Han.
Han’s shot hits Greedo and fries the bounty hunter.
Han Solo pays the bartender - “sorry about the mess” - and leaves the cantina.
January 13th, 2006 at 2:53 pm
First of all, Han Solo is a criminal - he’s a smuggler, and not even a good one!
Second, even if they tell you something else - it was Han who shot first and fried poor Greedo! Clearly there was some tinkering with the surveillance video that now seems to show Greedo shooting first (and missing at a distance of 1 meter? Come on!) to wash Han clean of murder.
I can tell you, and i know it - HAN SHOT FIRST!
July 7th, 2006 at 3:40 pm
[...] ***** SPOILER WARNING ***** SERENITY is the movie to the short-lived TV-series Firefly produced by the FOX TV network. And it’s no coincidence that the film is produced by competitor UNIVERSAL. There was a moral outcry when Firefly was aired - the “moral majority” didn’t want to see a “hero” who wasn’t heroic, a promiscuous female mechanic or a heroic prostitute. While there is basically no eroticism or sex in the movie, Captain Mal is still not your standard movie hero - he is a tougher version of Han Solo (and Han Solo shot first!) with a flavor of Rick “i stick my neck out for nobody” Blaine (Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca), and the movie plot is subversive enough (secret government plan to sedate and control the population goes horribly wrong, all evidence is suppressed, people are killed in cold blood to keep the secret) to upset some people. On the surface, SERENITY is your typical popcorn-movie: a space-western with lots of action, “zombies”, good and bad guys, special effects, explosions and enough funny one-liners to keep the audience who doesn’t get the references (or simply isn’t interested in them) happy, and no knowledge of the TV series Firefly is required. The actors do their job well (it’s the original actors from the TV series), and i want to close with a quote from pilot Wash (Alan Tudyk), repeated like a mantra during a crazy flight right through a space battle (see pictures on top) : “I am a leaf on the wind - watch how i soar” Indeed - watch it! [...]